Harmon, M.; McKee, W. 2011. Litterfall rates in Reference Stand within the Andrews Experimental Forest, 1977-1985 Long-Term Ecological Research Andrews Forest LTER Site. [Database]. Available: https://andrewsforest-stage.forestry.oregonstate.edu/data/fsdb-data-catalog/TL001 Accessed 2026-05-10.

Seasonal and annual rates of litterfall have been sampled at 6 permanent plots picked to represent a range of habitats and elevations. To assess variation in litterfall and decomposition and its role in nutrient cycling across an environmental gradient of moisture and temperature. This study is to be incorporated with others in the western and northern US to study the relationship of climate and vegetation on litterfall rates and decomposition.

Temporal coverage: 1977-06-01 to 1985-01-11

Geographic coverage: Selected Reference Stands in the Andrews Experimental Forest

Spatial coverage:

Bounds: W -122.25882057, E -122.09452900, N 44.34400000, S 44.20177046

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Title: Long-Term Ecological Research

• Mark E. Harmon
  Role: Principal Investigator
  Oregon State University;Dept. of Forest Science;321 Richardson Hall, Corvallis, OR, 97331-5752, USA
  Phone: (541) 737-8455, (978) 724-0045 ext 223
  Email: mark.harmon@oregonstate.edu
  URL: http://fes.forestry.oregonstate.edu/people?path=people/harmon-mark
• Mark E. Harmon
  Role: Creator
  Oregon State University;Dept. of Forest Science;321 Richardson Hall, Corvallis, OR, 97331-5752, USA
  Phone: (541) 737-8455, (978) 724-0045 ext 223
  Email: mark.harmon@oregonstate.edu
  URL: http://fes.forestry.oregonstate.edu/people?path=people/harmon-mark
• W. Arthur McKee
  Role: Creator
  Flathead Lake Biological Station ;The University of Montana ;300 Bio Station Lane, Polson, MT, 59860-9659, USA
  Phone: 406-982-3301
  Email: Art.McKee@umontana.edu

• Information Manager
  Andrews Forest LTER Program, US Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station, 3200 SW Jefferson Way, Corvallis, OR, 97331
  Email: hjaweb@fsl.orst.edu
  URL: http://andrewsforest.oregonstate.edu/
• W. Arthur McKee
  Flathead Lake Biological Station ;The University of Montana ;300 Bio Station Lane, Polson, MT, 59860-9659, USA
  Phone: 406-982-3301
  Email: Art.McKee@umontana.edu

• Andrews Forest LTER Site
  Role: Publisher
  Forest Ecosystems and Society Department in Forestry, Oregon State University, 201K Richardson Hall, Corvallis, OR, 97331-5752
  Phone: (541) 737-8480
  Email: lterweb@fsl.orst.edu
  URL: http://andrewsforest.oregonstate.edu/

Seasonal and annual rates of litterfall have been sampled at 6 permanent plots picked to represent a range of habitats and elevations. To assess variation in litterfall and decomposition and its role in nutrient cycling across an environmental gradient of moisture and temperature. This study is to be incorporated with others in the western and northern US to study the relationship of climate and vegetation on litterfall rates and decomposition. Field Methods - TL001

Method Steps

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• LTER controlled vocabulary: primary productivity (theme), leaf area (theme), reference stands (theme), permanent plots (theme), litterfall (theme), primary production (theme), inorganic nutrients (theme), organic matter (theme)
• Andrews Experimental Forest site thesaurus: Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) (theme)
• LTER core research areas: primary production (theme), inorganic nutrients (theme), organic matter (theme)

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Data Use Agreement:

The re-use of scientific data has the potential to greatly increase communication, collaboration and synthesis within and among disciplines, and thus is fostered, supported and encouraged. This Data Set is released under the Creative Commons license CC BY "Attribution" (see: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Creative Commons license CC BY - Attribution is a license that allows others to distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon your work (even commercially), as long as you are credited for the original creation. This license accommodates maximum dissemination and use of licensed materials.

It is considered professional conduct and an ethical obligation to acknowledge the work of other scientists. The Data User is asked to provide attribution of the original work if this data package is shared in whole or by individual parts or used in the derivation of other products. A recommended citation is provided for each Data Set in the Andrews LTER data catalog (see: http://andlter.forestry.oregonstate.edu/data/catalog/datacatalog.aspx). A generic citation is also provided for this Data Set on the website https://portal.edirepository.org in the summary metadata page. Data Users are thus strongly encouraged to consider consultation, collaboration and/or co-authorship with the Data Set Creator.

While substantial efforts are made to ensure the accuracy of data and associated documentation, complete accuracy of data sets cannot be guaranteed and all data are made available "as is." The Data User should be aware, however, that data are updated periodically and it is the responsibility of the Data User to check for new versions of the data. The data authors and the repository where these data were obtained shall not be liable for damages resulting from any use or misinterpretation of the data.

General acknowledgement: Data were provided by the HJ Andrews Experimental Forest research program, funded by the National Science Foundation's Long-Term Ecological Research Program (DEB 2025755), US Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station, and Oregon State University.

License: N/A

Maintenance update frequency: annually

Description

• An update history is logged and maintained with each new version of every dataset.

Change History

• Version1 (1988-06-30)
  Original metadata creation.
• Version2 (2002-04-30)
  Metadata restructured and moved into SQLServer metadata database LTERMETA. Data moved into SQLServer database FSDBDATA.